Meet our team!
Emcees:
Adimika Arthur
Healthcare executive with significant leadership commitment to serving vulnerable populations. I am a visionary and strategic business thinker who partners with...
Fred Trotter
Fred Trotter is a healthcare data journalist and author. He is a founder of CareSet Systems, a technical blogger for O’Reilly...
With generous support:
Sketch City
Sketch City is an open community of technology advocates. We work together to advance technology and data in public decision making. Our...
HT4M
HealthTech4Medicaid (HT4M) is dedicated to supporting innovation in Medicaid. Our vision is to further improve quality and access to care for...
United Way
United Way - For nearly 100 years, United Way of Greater Houston has brought together diverse partners and approaches to get...
January Advisors
January Advisors is a data science consulting firm. We specialize in the challenges of nonprofit and public sectors....
American Hospital Association
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and...
CareSet Systems
CareSet Systems decodes Medicare claims data to guide new drug launches for pharmaceutical companies. Using the largest single cohort of patients...
Past and current mentors:
Melissa Korpi
Recently switched gears into the government administration industry after years of working in the nonprofit world. Passionate and strongly skilled in editing,...
Ashley Harris
Ashley works in partnership with local United Ways to identify issues of importance in their communities and helps to translate those...
Dr. Lance Black
Lance Black, MD, MBID is the Associate Director of the Texas Medical Center’s TMCx Accelerator program. Dr. Black served previously as Medical Device Innovation Lead,...
Grace Rodriguez
Grace Rodriguez helps do-gooders do greater. After co-founding Station Houston to unite the local innovation ecosystem and help entrepreneurs launch and...
Jason McBride
Performance driven managed care operations executive with diverse experience in health plans, operations, speciality services (behavioral health), and work with international systems....
Amy Price
Amy Price is the Senior Director of Navigation Services at United Way for Greater Austin where she oversees the 2-1-1 and...
Adrianna Cuellar Rojas
Adrianna has a lengthy history working with nonprofit organizations, state agencies, and advocacy groups, advancing partnerships and initiatives that improve communities....
Shanel Fields
Shanel Fields, Founder & CEO, leverages her mobile and healthcare technology expertise to bring innovation to the public safety space and...
Dorit Donoviel
20+ years leadership experience as director of R&D overseeing diverse areas of biomedical research from basic to applied science, drug discovery,...
L. Toni Lewis
Dr. Luella Toni Lewis pursued a career in social justice through medicine and earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology and a...
Gabriella Rowe
Gabriela Rowe is an experienced business leader and innovation strategist, currently serving as the CEO of Station Houston - a growing...
Jay Bhatt
Jay Bhatt serves as chief medical officer of the American Hospital Association and president of HRET. Most recently, he was the...
Susan Hutfless
Dr. Susan Hutfless is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds a joint...
Umair A. Shah
Dr. Shah earned his B.A. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University and M.D. from the University of Toledo Health Science Center. He completed...
Claudia Perez
Claudia Q. Perez is the Chief Xperience Officer and Sr. Consultant at BB Imaging and Consulting. Claudia ensures that business operations...
Mona Siddiqui
Dr. Siddiqui is the Chief Data Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services where she is driving the strategy...
Matthew Hauler
With over 18 years of extensive experience in large-scale data environments, Matthew joined the Data & Insights Division to follow his...
Dr. Michael Mackert
Michael Mackert, Ph.D., is the Director of The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Communication and Professor in the...
Chris McCarthy
Chris McCarthy is the VP of Strategy & Design at Hopelab and the Executive Director and Founder of the Innovation Learning...
Sponsors
Sketch City
Sketch City is an open community of technology advocates. We work together to advance technology and data in public decision making. Our...
HT4M
HealthTech4Medicaid (HT4M) is dedicated to supporting innovation in Medicaid. Our vision is to further improve quality and access to care for...
United Way
United Way - For nearly 100 years, United Way of Greater Houston has brought together diverse partners and approaches to get...
January Advisors
January Advisors is a data science consulting firm. We specialize in the challenges of nonprofit and public sectors....
American Hospital Association
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and...
CareSet Systems
CareSet Systems decodes Medicare claims data to guide new drug launches for pharmaceutical companies. Using the largest single cohort of patients...
Mentors
Melissa Korpi
Recently switched gears into the government administration industry after years of working in the nonprofit world. Passionate and strongly skilled in editing,...
Ashley Harris
Ashley works in partnership with local United Ways to identify issues of importance in their communities and helps to translate those...
Dr. Lance Black
Lance Black, MD, MBID is the Associate Director of the Texas Medical Center’s TMCx Accelerator program. Dr. Black served previously as Medical Device Innovation Lead,...
Grace Rodriguez
Grace Rodriguez helps do-gooders do greater. After co-founding Station Houston to unite the local innovation ecosystem and help entrepreneurs launch and...
Jason McBride
Performance driven managed care operations executive with diverse experience in health plans, operations, speciality services (behavioral health), and work with international systems....
Amy Price
Amy Price is the Senior Director of Navigation Services at United Way for Greater Austin where she oversees the 2-1-1 and...
Adrianna Cuellar Rojas
Adrianna has a lengthy history working with nonprofit organizations, state agencies, and advocacy groups, advancing partnerships and initiatives that improve communities....
Shanel Fields
Shanel Fields, Founder & CEO, leverages her mobile and healthcare technology expertise to bring innovation to the public safety space and...
Dorit Donoviel
20+ years leadership experience as director of R&D overseeing diverse areas of biomedical research from basic to applied science, drug discovery,...